SOUNDS OF SCHOOL

• Timothy Smith, Grade 8, Lakes Grammar - An Anglican School
• Poetry
• 2011

Excellence Award in the 'Step Write Up 2011' competition

A shout, a yell, a bustle of movement, a stammer of feet
That is the start to the school day
The bell sounds followed by bustle of movement
The playground goes quiet leaving the smell and sounds of....
The smell of cooking food, the sound of a crow crowing,
The tingle of water, the sound of the wind and rustling tree branches
The bell sounds for a second time and the sounds start up again
A shout, a yell, a bustle of movement, a stammer of feet
Then nothing, leaving new sounds
The soft sound of rattling keyboards, the accessional sounds of hurried feet
Then the bell sounds
A shout, a yell, a bustle of movement, a stammer of feet.